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Quote by Harold MacMillan
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them. – Samuel Butler

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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming. – Edgar Degas

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Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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A specialist is a person who fears the other subjects. – Martin H. Fisher

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